Day 11
单词作业
1.fossil
A new fossil, if confirmed, suggests life got started quickly on the ancient Earth.
N-COUNT 可数名词化石 A fossil is the hard remains of a prehistoric animal or plant that are found inside a rock.
2.condensed ; interstellar
it condensed,around 4.6 billion years ago, from the same cloud of dust and interstellar gas that gave birth to the sun and the rest of the solar system.
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词(液体)浓缩的Condensed liquids have been made thicker by removing some of the water in them.
【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n
...condensed mushroom soup.
蘑菇浓汤
ADJ 形容词星际的 Interstellar means between the stars.
【搭配模式】：ADJ n
【语域标签】：FORMAL 正式
...interstellar space.
星际空间
3.debut
Now, though, the date of life’s debut may be pushed back even further.
N-COUNT 可数名词(表演者或运动员的）首次登台，初次露面；（歌手的）首次录音Thedebutof a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.
【搭配模式】：oft with poss
Dundee United's Dave Bowman makes his internationaldebut.
邓迪联队的戴夫·鲍曼首次亮相国际比赛。
...herdebutalbum 'Sugar Time'.
她的首张专辑《甜蜜时光》
4.swathe ；shores
The rock in question is a 3-kilometre-long swathe on the eastern shores of the Hudson Bay called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt.
N-COUNT 可数名词(土地的)一长条，一长片Aswathe ofland is a long strip of land.
【搭配模式】：usu Nofn
On May 1st the army took over anotherswatheof territory...
军队在5月1号又接管了另一长条领土。
Year by year greatswathes of this small nation's countryside disappear.
年复一年,这个小国家的乡村面积正在一片片地大量消失。
海岸;河岸;湖滨 countable or uncountable the land along the edge of a sea, lake or wide river
•You can walk for miles along the shore.
•The boat was about a mile from/off (the) shore when the engine suddenly died.
5.basalt
It is mostly composed of pillow-shaped basalt, a type of rock formed when lava cools rapidly in seawater.
N-MASS 物质名词玄武岩 Basalt is a type of black rock that is produced by volcanoes.
6.nodule ; intrigued ; hollow ; tube
Within the veins and nodules of the jasper that intrigued his boss, Mr Dodd found hollow tubes between 2 and 14 microns in diameter and up to 0.5mm long made of haematite, a mineralised form of iron oxide.
N-COUNT 可数名词(植物的)根瘤，根结A nodule is a small round lump which is found on the roots of certain plants.
【搭配模式】：oft n N
...bacteria that live in rootnodules on certain plants.
寄居在某些植物根结里的细菌
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词被吸引住的;被迷住的If you are intrigued bysomething, especially something strange, it interests you and you want to know more about it.
【搭配模式】：usu v-link ADJ
They areintriguedby her story...
他们被她的故事迷住了。
I would beintriguedto hear others' views.
我很想听听别人的意见。
N-COUNT 可数名词凹陷处;低洼地A hollow is an area that is lower than the surrounding surface.
【搭配模式】：oft Nof/in/betweenn
Below him the town lay warm in thehollowof the hill.
在他下方，小镇卧在温暖的山谷里。
...where water gathers in ahollowand forms a pond.
在那里水积聚在低洼处形成了池塘
N-COUNT 可数名词管子;管;管状物Atubeis a long hollow object that is usually round, like a pipe.
He is fed by atubethat enters his nose.
他靠鼻饲管进食。
...a cardboardtube.
纸卷芯
7.filament ; anchored ; lump ; haematite ; corkscrew
Some of these filaments form networks anchored to a lump of haematite; others are corkscrew-shaped.
N-COUNT 可数名词细丝;细线;丝状物A filament is a very thin piece or thread of something, for example the piece of wire inside a light bulb.
VERB 动词与…有紧密联系;使扎根;使固守If something is anchored in something or to something, it has strong links with it.
【语法信息】：beV-edin/ton
【语法信息】：V-ed
【搭配模式】：usu passive
A united Germany must be firmlyanchored in NATO if Europe is to remain stable...
欧洲要保持稳定，德国必须统一并固守北约。
His basic outlook remainsanchored in the liberal tradition.
他的基本观念依旧扎根于自由主义传统。
N-COUNT 可数名词（一）块A lump of something is a solid piece of it.
【搭配模式】：oft Nofn
The potter shaped and squeezed thelumpof clay into a graceful shape.
制陶工人把黏土块捏塑成优美的形状。
...a lump of wood...
一块木头
They used to buy ten kilos of beef in onelump.
他们过去常买10公斤重的整块牛肉。
haematite: noun uncountable specialized
a common dark red or grey rock from which iron is obtained
N-COUNT 可数名词瓶塞钻;螺丝开瓶起子A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
8.resemblance ; hydrothermal ; vent ; crenellated ; tectonic ; laden
The team contends that these bear more than a passing resemblance to the networks of bacteria that live in hydrothermal vents—towering, crenellated structures that form in the deep ocean above the boundaries between tectonic plates, where superheated mineral-laden water spurts up from beneath the seabed.
N-VAR 可变名词相似之处;类似之处If there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar to each other.
【搭配模式】：oft adj N
There was a remarkableresemblancebetween him and Pete...
他和皮特之间有着惊人的相似之处。
Our tour prices bore littleresemblanceto those in the holiday brochures.
我们的旅游报价和那些度假手册里的价格相去甚远。
hydrothermal: adjective ,relating to or denoting the action of heated water in the earth's crust.
N-COUNT 可数名词通风孔;排气口A vent is a hole in something through which air can come in and smoke, gas, or smells can go out.
Quite a lot of steam escaped from theventat the front of the machine...
大量蒸汽从机器前部的排风口冒了出来。
There was a small airventin the ceiling.
天花板上有个小小的通风孔。
ADJ 形容词(城墙)有雉堞的In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n
【FIELD标签】：TECHNICAL 术语
...crenellated turrets.
有雉堞的塔楼
ADJ 形容词地质构造的;地壳构造的 Tectonic means relating to the structure of the earth's surface or crust.
【搭配模式】：ADJ n
【FIELD标签】：TECHNICAL 术语
...the tectonic plates of the Pacific region.
太平洋地区的地壳构造板块
ADJ 形容词装满的；满载的 If someone or something is laden with a lot of heavy things, they are holding or carrying them.
【搭配模式】：oft ADJ with n
【STYLE标签】：LITERARY 文
I came homeladenwith cardboard boxes...
我抱着一大堆纸箱回了家。
The following summer the peach tree wasladenwith fruit...
第二年夏天桃树就结满了桃子。
...heavily-ladenmules.
驮着重物的骡子
9.remnants ; microbes ; coiled
Well-preserved fossil remnants of these microbes have been found at many sites younger than Nuvvuagittuq, and they closely resemble the coiled and branching tubes that Dr Papineau and his colleagues have found.
N-COUNT 可数名词剩余部分;残余部分;残迹;残存物The remnants ofsomething are small parts of it that are left over when the main part has disappeared or been destroyed.
【搭配模式】：usu Nofn
After twenty-four hours of fighting, theremnants of the force were fleeing...
战斗持续了24个小时后，该部队残部打算溜掉。
Beneath the present church wereremnants of Roman flooring...
在现在的教堂下面是古罗马时期地面的遗存。
Obedience by women towards men is aremnantof religious teaching.
女人对男人的顺从是宗教教义的残迹。
N-COUNT 可数名词微生物A microbe is a very small living thing, which you can only see if you use a microscope.
ADJ 形容词卷着的;盘绕的 Coiled means in the form of a series of loops.
【搭配模式】：ADJ n
...a heavy coiled spring.
重型螺旋弹簧
...special coiled kettle flexes.
特制的电热水壶加热圈
10.intriguing ; hydrothermal ; plausible ; cradle
Such a find is doubly intriguing because hydrothermal vents are seen as a plausible candidate for the cradle of life.
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词有趣的;引人入胜的;奇怪的If you describe something as intriguing, you mean that it is interesting or strange.
【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n
Thisintriguingbook is both thoughtful and informative.
这本引人入胜的书既有思想性又富知识性。
hydrothermal:adjective,relating to or denoting the action of heated water in the earth's crust.
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词（解释或说法）似乎真实的，貌似合理的An explanation or statement that is plausible seems likely to be true or valid.
A more plausible explanation would seem to be that people are fed up with the Conservative government...
貌似更加合理的解释似乎是，人们已经厌倦了保守党政府。
That explanation seems entirelyplausibleto me.
那个解释在我看来完全说得通。
N-COUNT 可数名词发源地;发祥地A place that is referred to as the cradle of something is the place where it began.
【搭配模式】：usu sing
Mali is the cradle of some of Africa's richest civilizations.
马里是非洲一些最悠久的文明的发祥地。
...New York, the cradle of capitalism.
纽约，资本主义的发源地
11.pore ; gradient
Microscopic pores in the rock might have served as natural cell walls, and the chemistry of the water could provide exactly the sort of energy gradient that a primitive living cell would have needed to go about its bio-chemical business.
N-COUNT 可数名词（植物表面的）气孔The pores of a plant are the tiny holes on its surface.
【搭配模式】：usu pl
A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.
植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。
N-COUNT 可数名词变化率The gradient of a graph or series of measurements is the rate at which one set of amounts changes in relation to another.
【搭配模式】：with supp
【FIELD标签】：TECHNICAL 术语
12.scrutiny; implication
The find—which will face fierce scrutiny from other palaeobiologists—has other implications, too.
N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词详细的检查(或审查);仔细的观察If a person or thing is underscrutiny, they are being studied or observed very carefully.
【搭配模式】：oft prep N
His private life came under mediascrutiny...
他的私生活受到媒体的密切关注。
The President promised a government open to publicscrutiny.
总统承诺政府将接受公众监督。
N-COUNT 可数名词暗示;暗指;含意The implication of a statement, event, or situation is what it implies or suggests is the case.
【搭配模式】：PHR with cl/group
The implication was obvious: vote for us or it will be very embarrassing for you...
弦外之音很明显：投票给我们,否则你会非常难堪。
The implication that marital infidelity enhances a leader's credibility is preposterous.
婚姻不忠会提升领导人可信度的暗示荒谬之极。
13.well up from the crust
well up: (of a liquid) rise up to the surface and spill or be about to spill.
N-COUNT 可数名词地壳The earth's crust is its outer layer.
【搭配模式】：with supp
Earthquakes leave scars in the earth's crust.
地震会在地壳上留下裂痕。
Day 12
逻辑导图
神句翻译
1.The team contends that these bear more than a passing resemblance tothe networks of bacteria that live in hydrothermal vents--towering, crenellatedstructures that form in the deep ocean above the boundaries between tectonicplates, where superheated mineral-laden water spurts up from beneath the seabed.
该团队认为, 这些和生活在深海热泉的细菌群落极为相似----深海热泉指的是: 深海中构造板块交界边缘上方高耸锯齿型的部分,富含矿物质的水从海底喷涌而出。
Bear more than a passing resemblance to: passing指的是过关，及格线，
more than a passing resemblance指远超及格线，非常相似。
2.Such a find isdoubly intriguingbecause hydrothermal vents are seen asa plausible candidate for the cradle of life.
人们认为深海热泉很有可能是生命的摇篮，这就使得该发现显得更有意思。
Plausible:有两种意思，一个偏褒义，另一个偏贬义，此处指appearing worthy of belief：eg. the argument was both powerful and plausible 褒义
3.Although the sorts of bacteria apparently found by Dr. Papineau and his colleagues are too complicated to reveal much about the very earliest organisms, the suggestion that hydrothermal vents have played host to life for so long is a strike in the theory’s favor.
尽管P教授和同事们发现的这类细菌太过复杂，无法更深入的揭示早期生命体的情况，但依然表明深海热泉养育生命的历史甚为悠久，这是支撑该理论的有力依据。
Too....to...太......以致不能......You are too young to drive. 你太年轻，还不能开车。
Day 13
总结反思
这篇文章最大的问题可能就在于生词和背景知识的不熟悉，所以第一天的梳理其实费了不少力气，另外就是此次的时间把握还有待加强，感觉还是花费了不少力气在字词的梳理上，反而忽略了对于整体结构的把握，这是需要自己着重关注的地方。
正如导师所言还是注重平时对于关键字词的把握，特别是某些承上启下的转接词，这是梳理全文逻辑的关键。
本次的群内问答环节有几个问题很值得探讨，大家集思广益的结果，以及新奇的学习方式和途径例如用图片来解释具体构造也十分清晰直观，值得学习！